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A special episode with Michael Ondaatje, the first Canadian to win Britain's top literary prize - the Booker. Ondaatje talks about his work and reads from his award-winning novel The English Patient.

Michael Ondaatje talks about his new novel, Anil's Ghost. Set during the civil war in Sri Lanka, it's an evocation of fear, violence, and grace.

Host Eleanor Wachtel has spoken with Michael Ondaatje many times on Writers & Company over the years, most recently when Ondaatje turned the tables and interviewed HER at an event for the Writers & Company 20th Anniversary celebrations. She now speaks to him, onstage at the International Festival of Authors, about his latest book, The Cat's Table.